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  <Title>The Effects of Word Order and Segmentation on Translation Retrieval Performance</Title>
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5 Concluding remarks
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This research is concerned with l;}m r(;lativ(~ iml)orl; ot7 word order and segm(mta.1;ion on translation rel;rieval i)erformmlc(~ tbr a TM system. Wc mo(Ml('xl the elthcts of word order s(msitivity vs. 1)ag-of-wol'dS word order ins(msit;ivity 1)y iml)l(mmnl,ing a total of live similarity mcla'ics: two bag-of-words al)proach(',s (lhe v(',(:tor spa(:(; model and &amp;quot;tolC/('.n int(us(!(:tion&amp;quot;) and tin'('.(', w()r(l ord(',r-s(;nsitive al)l)roach(',s ((',(lit; distan(:('., &amp;quot;s(;quential corr(',Sl)ond(',nce&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;wcight(',d sequential corr(~st)ondenc(C/'). Ea(:h of th(;s(; nw, tri(',s was then l;(~sl;e(t Hll(ler (:har;~cl;(;r-1)as(~(\[ al~(t word-based in(h'~xing, to deto, rmin(,~ what (;tt'c(:t s(~gm(',ntal;ion wouhl have, on r('.trieval 1)(~rl'orman(:(h Eml)iric~d evaluation })asc, d }ll'Olllld \[,h( ~, l;alg(!l, languag(', (;(tit distance of t)rot)osed traiMa.tion can(lidal(',s r(~vcaicd that (:hara(:tcr-1)ascd indexing consist(mtly produ(:ed gr('~atcr accuracy than wordq)ased in(lexiltg; and thai; the word or(l(~r-s('atsitivo~ (;(lit distain:(', m(;tri(: clearly outl)(',rforme(1 all other methods un(h',r 1)oth in(l(',xing paradigms.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The main area in wlfi(',h we, fc!d this r(~s(!ar(:h c(mht 1)c, (mhan(:(~d is to validate th(~ findings of this 1)aper in (~Xlmn(ling evahlati()n 1o olh(w domains mid l;esl; Set,q, whi(:h wc h'av(', as ;lll il:(?lll 1'()1 t'ulm(~ res(mr(:h. We also skirl;ed m'(mnd lira issu(~ ()f lrmlslation record partitioning, and wish 11)inv(!stigale how difl'(;r(mt 1)mtitioning m(~'tho(ls lmrfl)rm againsl; c,;mh other. One important area in which w(; hop(~ to eXl)and our resem'ch is to look at tim etl'(~(:ts of character type on chm'act(',r-bas(~d indexing, t(anji would a,ppear to be helping the case of character-based indexing at t)rc, s(mt, ;rod it woul(\[ 1)e highly r(;vcaling to look at wh(',th(',r COml)ara,1)l(', ro, sults to t\]losc 1)r(:s(;nt('d h(;r(~ would 1)(', t)ro(ht(:ed \[or full kaim-basc'd (alphal)c, ti(:) ,lal)an(',sc input, or otlmr all)hal)ct-1)ased n(m-s(~gm(ulting languages such as Thai.</Paragraph>
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